Or ID. On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath/world-war-ii-prisoners-war-iowa > Germans at Algona and Clarinda. > > http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-10-07/news/ > 0210070179_1_pow-camps-german-soldiers-traveling > > http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1554&context > =annals-of-iowa Italian and German POWs. > > I also read a thing that said Italians were housed at "Fairwiew, Iowa" I > did not find any other info t confirm this. Fairview is an unincorporated > settlement. Probably either FairFIELD IA, or the IA was a typo and it was > Fairview, LA, just downstream from Natchez. > > http://www.prisonersinparadise.com/history.html > >> Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> January 16, 2018 at 4:47 PM >> There were POW camps on Lake of the Woods south of Kenora during the war >> too. I am told that they even gave the prisoners guns and let them go >> hunting. No worries I guess as these guys had it made in the shade. No way >> they wanted to escape and go back to the war. They spent the rest of the >> war being treated pretty well. >> There was, until only a few years ago, one of the former prisoners who >> owned a cottage in the area and came back every summer from Germany. >> >> RB >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
